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The Loew’s Konover Theatre, inside the Konover Hotel, was an experiment in turning a Miami Beach hotel cabaret into a luxury cinema featuring valet parking, bartender service from your seat and upscale snacks. It opened on Christmas Day 1975 with "The Man Who Would Be King".

That spring it hosted a special free screening of Scorcese’s "Taxi Driver" to a group of dumbfounded local cab drivers. By Christmas, 1976 it was once again a cabaret.

Today the Konover Hotel is home to the troubled Castle Beach Club Hotel and Condominium.

Screening “Taxi Driver” to cab drivers is reminiscent of the time the Miami Film Festival premiered “My Beautiful Laundrette”… sponsored by Maytag. The Lonely Repairman might have been in for a surprise…

This was originally a Hilton and later became the Playboy Plaza. Jackie Gleason purportedly helped in the design of the theater when it opened in ‘67 and subsequently Maurice Revitz and Loews plunked down close to a million for its renovation.